The public, open-casket viewing took place at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia. Sen. Pinckney is reportedly the first African American reportedly the first African American to have a wake under the capitol dome since the Reconstruction era.

After the Senate rejected the USA Freedom Act, a bill to reform NSA surveillance authority, the deadline to reauthorize parts of the Patriot Act will likely pass, ending the government’s authority to collect in bulk Americans’ phone data without a warrant. The fallout remains unclear.

Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 but escaped from prison. She was offered asylum in Cuba and she will stay there, officials said.